105 Spanish for Bilingual Students
2024-25: Not offered
130 Latinx Religion
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2019,
Spring 2022135 Race and Religion in the U.S. West/Mexico Borderlands
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2021140 Immigration and White Supremacy
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2021186 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2019,
Fall 2024200 Major Dialogues in Latinx and Latin American Studies
(Offered as LLAS 200 and AMST 206) In this course students will become familiar with the major critical dialogues that have animated Latinx and Latin American Studies, addressing a wide range of issues from pre-Conquest times to the present. Each week students will focus on specific questions such as: Does Latin America have a common culture? Is Latin America part of the Western world? Is Latinx a race or an ethnicity? Is U.S. Latinx identity rooted in Latin America or the United States? Are Latin American nations post-colonial? Was the modern concept of race invented in the Caribbean at the time of the Conquest? The diverse viewpoints around such questions will provide the main focus of the reading assignments, which will average two or three articles per week. Students will learn a methodology for analyzing, contextualizing, and making arguments that they can then use to develop their own positions in the field's critical dialogues.
Limited to 20 students. Alicia J. Mireles Christoff
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2018,
Fall 2019,
Fall 2020,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2024,
Fall 2024201 Power and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2015,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2018,
Spring 2020,
Spring 2021204 Housing, Urbanization, and Development
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2018,
Spring 2019,
Spring 2021,
Spring 2022,
Spring 2023205 Finding Your Bilingual Voice
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2019,
Spring 2020,
Spring 2021,
Spring 2023,
Spring 2024216 Frida and Diego
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2013,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2017,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2022226 Theorizing the Black Queer Americas
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022234 The Sanctuary Movement: Religion, Activism, and Social Contestation
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2020,
Spring 2021,
Fall 2024248 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2023261 History of Central America
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2019,
Spring 2020,
Spring 2021263 Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Fall 2008,
Spring 2012,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2019,
Spring 2021,
Spring 2022264 Introduction to Latin America
(Offered as HIST 264 [LA/TC/TE/TR/P] and LLAS 264) Over the course of three centuries, massive migrations from Europe and Africa and the dramatic decline of indigenous populations in South and Central America radically transformed the cultural, political, economic, and material landscape of what we today know as Latin America. This course will investigate the dynamism of Latin American societies beginning in the ancient or pre-conquest period and ending with the collapse of European rule in most Spanish, Portuguese, and French speaking territories in the New World. We will explore this history through the eyes of various historical actors, including politicians, explorers, noble men and women, indigenous intellectuals, and African slaves. In addition to interrogating the myriad of peaceable and creative cross-cultural exchanges and interactions that characterized the relationship between these groups, we will also explore how conflict, exploitation, and natural disaster shaped the Colonial Latin American experience. Through a mixture of lecture, small and large group activities, and analysis of primary and secondary sources we will also consider how historians understand the past as well as the foundational debates which shape our current interpretations of colonial Latin American history. Two class meetings per week.
Limited to 20 students. Javier Puente
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2016,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2018,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2021265 Environmental History of Latin America
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2013,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2017,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2021,
Fall 2024268 Black History of Spanish America, 1503-1886
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2021,
Fall 2023275 Gender and Slavery in Latin America
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2011,
Fall 2012,
Fall 2013,
Fall 2022277 Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2022278 Black History of Brazil, 1500-1888
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2023280 Slave Resistance in Latin America & the Caribbean
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2023281 Africa, Latin America, & the Atlantic Slave Trade
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2024282 From Slavery to Freedom in Latin America
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2018,
Spring 2024301 Literature and Culture of the Hispanic World
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2019,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2020,
Spring 2021,
Fall 2021,
Spring 2022,
Fall 2022,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2023,
Spring 2024,
Fall 2024308 Contemporary Latinx Literature
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2014,
Spring 2016,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2022,
Fall 2023316 Language and Power
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2024321 Architecture and Violence in the Americas
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2023330 Latin American Cinema
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2019,
Spring 2023,
Fall 2024332 Amazonia in International Relations
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2024333 Latinx Religion and Immigration
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2024341 Mexican Rebels
(Offered as LLAS 341 and HIST 341 [LA/TE/TR/TS]) What inspires individuals to risk everything to try to change their world? Students will attempt to answer this question through cases ranging from personal acts of rebellion, to social movements and armed conflict. The course pays close attention to personal acts of rebellion against repressive racial, political, and gender structures, focusing on such figures as Hernán Córtes’s legendary consort La Malinche (Malintzin Tenepal), the seventeenth-century protofeminist Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, the transgender revolutionary general Amelia/o Robles Ávila, and the artists Gerardo Murillo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. We also will address armed conflicts such as the Tlaxcalan war against the Aztec Empire, the Wars of Independence (1810-1821), the Maya uprising against white domination in the second half of the nineteenth century, guerrilla resistance against US and French invasions in the 1840s and 1860s, the War of Reform (1857-1860), the Cristero War (1926-1929), the Zapatista uprising of the 1990s, and, most importantly, the Mexican Revolution of (1910-1921). And we will examine social protests, such as the student movement that ended in the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, El Barzón, #YoSoy132, MORENA, APPO, the Ayotzinapa protests, and peasant ecology initiatives.
Omitted 2024-25. Professor R. Lopez.
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2021343 Comparative Borderlands: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Transnational Perspective
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2020,
Fall 2022345 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2016,
Fall 2019,
Spring 2021346 Indigenous Histories of Latin America
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2020349 Latinx Holyoke
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2020,
Spring 2023350 Black Latinas: Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Women of African Descent
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2023375 Amherst Latinx Lives
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2020380 World-Making: Art in Times of Global War
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2023381 El desierto: Capital, Surveillance, Nomadism
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2024427
War and Peace: The Colombian ArchiveOther years: Offered in Fall 2024
461 The Creole Imagination
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2012,
Spring 2015,
Spring 2018,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2023463 Research Seminar in the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2022485 Telenovelas
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2020,
Spring 2023
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